The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-05-11
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a complaint from Chicago that the Sunday
school workers were cut of from @passes" and
freight favors and asking redress The re-
ply was that all such questions were in the
hands of the railroad companies, and they
must construe the law to suit themselves I'M
til the points under it had been adjudicated.
Fifty colored persons who had gath
cred at New Orleans to witness an immersion
were precipitated into the river by the collapse
of the railing ON the wharf, and eight were
drowned.
Destructive forest fires are reported
in the Catskill Mountains. Edison threatens
TO astonish the world with some new discov-
cries. Paul Grottkau, Milwaukee's noisy an
archist agitator has been sentenced to one
year in the House of Correction. Exon
gresham Finerty has been made Oil In
spector of Chicago Over olives are known
to have been lost by the mine exploson in
British Columbia Express Messenger Foth-
eringham has sued the Adams Express Com
pany for 100000 damages. Two clipper
ships are to race from New York to San Fran
cisco, around Cape Horn. Billy Welch, the
negro minstrel, is dead The Spanish Cham
Der of Deputies has passed bill establishing
trial by jury.
The total number of labor strikes
and lockouts this year to April 30 is $40,
against 40 reported in a like portion of last
year. The total number of men involved is
$4,000, against 130, Goa gain of II per cent
The stove foundries of Detroit have
shut down, throwing $50 men out of ON
ployment.
Three murderers were legally exc
cuted on Friday, the 9th inst, namely: John
Rogers, at Eureka, Cal Theodore Baker, at
Las Vegas, n. NJ and Henry Anderson tcol-
ored), at socorro, N NJ.
Crop prospects in South Carolina
are reported more favorable than at this sea-
son in any previous year since 1882
Gen. Greeley, Chief Signal Officer,
has arranged TO issue special weekly bulle-
tin with view of promptly placing before
the public each Monday morning reliable in
formation relative TO the climatic condition in
the agricultural districts Of the country 1t
is believed that these bulletins will serve as
reliable basis for determining the conditions
favorable or unfayorable for the growing
crops
DR.. c. c. Carroll, of Meadville, Pa,
has discovered method by which aluminium
can be Cast, soldered. and welded.
A hot sirocco blew the whole week
| throughout hungary, destroying vegetation
and rendering itinlammable, says a Vienna dis
patch At Macy Karoly in Pennsylvania 400
houses were destroyed, and 5000 people rem
dered homeless are camping in the open air.
At Torocca houses were burned and four
lives were lost At Ruskborg a church and
| thirty-seven houses were destroyed. Many
houses were burned at the village of Meregyo
At Eperies all the churches and public build
ings were destroyed and tine cemetery was
devastated. At the latter place many inmates
of convent school are missing, and several
girls were killed by jumping from windows
1t is estimated that the total losses will reach
2500Jl.
No credence is given at Berlin to the
rumorel alliance between France and Russia
Prince Bismarck's scheme to make
the imperial finances of Germany independent
of contributions from the individual states is
likely to prove successful
The jubilee subscription business has
become public nuisance in England. The
subscription solicitors are having a hard time
of it, the mass of the people showing dispo-
stion to ridicule the whole affair
The anti German demonstrations in
Paris excite no feeling in Berlin, but the stu
alton in Alsace- Lorraine increases the difficulty
daily. The frontier posts on each SIDE have
ceased to exchange courtesies, and act as if
war might break out at any moment